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You'll notice a little change to Score Events with this year's Haunted by Daylight, so we wanted to give you a look behind the curtain! What's changing? We're removing unique Score Events for seasonal event hooks and gens. In the past during events, you would get both the regular AND the event-specific Score Event when…

Haunted by Daylight's back and we've made some changes based on your feedback: 👻When it came to the Void, we know it didn't always feel worth it to go there, from the lack of looping opportunities for Survivors to Killers feeling it hurt gen pressure. To help bring the action to YOU, we've removed the Void and brought…

Hello everybody, As you’re all aware, we are currently in our 10th year of operating Dead by Daylight as a live game. While the dev team is looking at numerous ways to update, improve, and modernize the game to carry us through the next 10 years, we are doing this on the community side of things as well. When looking at…

@CountOfTheFog Our dear Count, friend and community chief for all things updates, was recently in a serious accident. When I was able to briefly speak with him, he was in a lot of pain and facing surgery. He was also really upset about not being able to attend the event in Canada today. He was so eager and excited to meet…

It requires a survivor to start absorbing points from a portal, which gives you a prompt to immediately teleport across the map to that portal from anywhere so "surprise" them. Its a very vague quest description and despite survivors having a quest to absorb points from portals rarely anyone ever tries.

In the early days of DBD. Killers used to be able to switch between characters in the Wait Lobby. This was considered an advantage for Killers, because if they notice a SWF team, or items that look like they would bring a certain playstyle from the survivors, they could easily switch to a character they feel better suited…

I'm talking about the ones that are really unhealthy for the game, truly unpleasant to play against. My top ones are ghoul (of course), nurse (we all love a killer who totally ignores all usual counters), Jason (no killer should have the sort of insane basekit and add ons that he does) and Myers (I absolutely despise his…

In about a month, these forums will close, so with that, my send-off to this wonderful place on the internet would be to post a Sable every day until it happens. Est: 32 days until closure 1/32 - Goth Princess Sable

to "Kunta Kinte". we are there just for survivors and devs to beat us. perk shake up and it still the same perks being played. decisive strike, deadhard, lithe.

with Diminishing Returns I feel like Machine Learning is fine with 10% haste without causing issues, you can only really use it along side Help Wanted, and it's not that strong without help wanted.

Look, I get it. BHVR can't make money on this character anymore. It's low priority. He's not that popular. On and on. But come on. He should at least do what he's supposed to do. Chains breaking my heart is to be expected. But one of his most satisfying killer mechanics, blocking an exit and catching the survivor, has been…

i feel like the devs are trying their best to remove any unique aspect of dbd for the Fortnitfication of the game. change rarity colors which no one asked for, remove flavor text from perks, removing rituals and replacing them with the most generic challenges and calling them "quests" instead. a lot less focus on the lore…

Are they getting legendary badges at a later date or was the focus of the collab mostly on Lilith?

Since the release of the 10.1.0 update, which introduced our new MMR system, we've been closely monitoring matchmaking data and player feedback. Many of you have reported matches feeling unbalanced, with players of widely varying skill levels and playtimes being matched together. The launch of the new MMR system required a…

Is gonna be Suuuuuper awkward if he isn't a visceral skin with his own mori lol just picture the Lord of Hatred gently caressing your face after choking you with his boney hands.

Half the time the killers aren't even that good. The killer slugs for the 4k to try an get me then lets the other person go. Even when they let that person go i'm still the one with the most points.

Hey, I've been having some laggy games since yesterday and today's dbd update and I'm wondering if this is a common problem at the moment or is it more likely my internet connection causing the problems? My game kicked me out of the game once yesterday and twice today at random times.. :( annoying for me and probably other…

I have been banned from games for an hour due to a series of console crashes on my Xbox. While I know the Xbox crashes may not be a BHVR problem, why am I being penalised for something that is entirely out of my control?

As you can see from the video above, the Ghoul player becomes glitched after downing me and can’t move from that spot or perform an attack. This was just a glitch but I’m worried that they might assume I’ve used some sort of hack / exploit as it happened directly after downing me. I’m a PlayStation player and can’t use…

I'm wondering when the forum-closing emails will be sent out, as mentioned here: There are apparently some technical issues with my forum account because I personally never received my Alpha Surveyor tag from Meet Your Maker and I was never able to get that rectified from reaching out to forum staff/mods, so I'm trying to…

With the fourms closing in around 2 weeks. we where told changes where going to be coming to the discord to try to support longform content, along with a email about the fourm member role on discord. I am already a member of the discord yet it does not seem to be any changes to try to cater to more longform content. Is…

As there are some things that seperate the 2 games entirely: Both games have completely different target audiences. Dbd is considered a Mild horror game because they are trying to draw in a much wider target audience that just enjoys horror in general to keep player count high. Hellraiser : Revival on the other hand would…

Are global progress numbers just pulled out of someone's behind when event quests are designed? I see most of the sub-quests that feed into that are survivor challenges but given that each match has a 4:1 survivor to killer ratio I would think that wouldn't necessarily be the nail in the coffin for this. They don't seem…

Maybe I'm the only one experiencing this but I feel like there is a sudden MMR jump in the Haunted by Daylight event? I've been playing both sides for the last 3 days now and the first day was fine and I had like a 50/50 escape/kill rate but since yesterday I suddenly only get 50k hours comp squads, streamers that play…

Everything is orange. I can't see pallets, I can't see the killer's redstain, and I can't see anything at all because everything has the same hue. Nice one bhvr, ill come back when this flopped event is over.

Self-explanatory. Source: DBD Japan X

Make it so this addon makes the traps 50% transparent instead.

In game message sent out today: The Tomes are finally being sunset. I wonder exactly when. I also wonder what the rewards will be but assume they'll be underwhelming like the prestige rework. Honestly I miss the Tomes, it was a more interactive reward system than we have now. I still think using the Tome system for events…

#3548 Missing Houndmaster Voice Lines During Hooking - Dead by Daylight

As we look back on the history here, I figure why not have a place to share some memories from over the years? Sadly Xbox in the last couple years has decided to automatically delete all captures so I've lost a lot of really interesting stuff. This is the only surviving photo I have of my most played survivor, Jeryl. I…

Had a match against the Judgement and they were able to completely block the hook. My teammates and I weren't even getting the prompt to unhook them so had to leave. Is this an oversight, bug or intended?

Obviously I regret giving hatch and won't make that mistake again no matter how bad the teammates.

Hello! Want to preface by saying I started playing DBD this anniversary, so this is my first halloween event. What does everyone think of the Halloween event so far? What is it like compared to past ones? For example IK the past ones had a different realm you got taken to or something? I like the haunts (?) and smashing…

Emote texts should change throughout the match based on whats going on. For example, while actively on a hook, options instead temporareily switch to stuff like "Killer at hook" "Dont save just yet" "Safe to unhook" "Killer Leaving" "Repair for now!" ect While injured, "Healing" becomes "Need healing' After saying "Chasing…

I think this show deserves its own chapter like they did with Stranger Things.

Hello! I am making another post because the forum is closing soon and it is as good a time as any to ask this question. Now that Jason isn't the newest killer, what are people's thoughts on him? Current experiences playing against him? For example my Jason experience then vs now: Now: I have not seen Jason nearly as much…

Yeah the game just sucks now. Nerf all our perks and don't let people abandon now. Killers do nothing but tunnel and camp which is a huge snooze fest. Like where is the skill what happened to actual skill while playing. Oh right they made it so even babies can play even though its rated M. Revert the update its not fun…

Playing 2 games of Killer and 5 of Survivor, I haven't seen any survivor wins on the event yet. Streamers seem to be getting handled pretty bad too. I don't know what the Killer buffs are but seems like Survivors are getting mopped everywhere.

The game making the big return of the series has been made by the devs of Dead Cells. Though I have played every Castlevania and enough dead cells to defeat Dracula in its Castlevania DLC, I'm having a tough time trying to like the new Castlevania. To start, you play as the weakest character in the entire castlevania…

I went through a lot of recent Gen Rush videos and tallied which loadouts kept coming up, then checked each perk against the wiki. Three builds stood out, so I wanted to hear what other people are seeing in matches since 10.2.0 went live. Build 1: Boon: Steadfast, Overzealous, Flow State, Boon: Illumination Most of the…

Whenever I start the game, I can play maybe one match before it crashes. When I sign back in, I’m banned for leaving the game. I’ve verified my game files, deleted temporary system files, and run sfc /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth, but nothing has worked. Now I’m banned for an hour because of these…

So Remember Me description is just wrong. Before it was for each Token add 6 seconds up to 30s. Right now It says for each Token Survivors open 30% slower. It doesn't say how much one token is. And even if it did say 6% per token the math is wrong. (20÷0.7= 28.571s) Remember me takes 50s to open. That would be 60% slower.…

Firecrackers can now be thrown like Diversion and will feature a little white sphere indicating where it will be thrown. Unlike before it will no longer cause the killer to drop survivors, in exchange it will have a lingering Blindness and Deafened effect for the killer who are hit by one. The effects will linger between 5…

https://deadbydaylight.com/news/the-entity-unveiled/ …What little information we have was collected by a mysterious character by the name of The Observer, who put forth his own theories. “The Entity is the cosmic embodiment of evil,” he states, in a log titled Arcus 142. “Back home we witnessed how its very presence turns…

Is it that 2nd counter to it appears to be well hidden? From my games, the perk ends up a dead slot because I would always go ahead and counter it myself, making it block a 0% gen and effectively do nothing. The counterplay of Pain Res + Dead Man's combo by letting go of a hot gen already reduces it's effectiveness, but…

I wanted to share some personal thoughts on the current state of the Asian servers. Frequent Lag Issues Lately, lag has been a major issue. I've been experiencing frame rate drops, attacks failing to connect due to what seems like desync, Survivors suddenly speeding up or slowing down unpredictably, and sometimes even…

Half way through the final month of these forums. Reading through people's retrospectives, thinking about BHVR's history, and my own experiences on the forum, I think there are five things that BHVR seems unable to make their mind up on, which perhaps stems from disagreements in the community, about the direction for the…

I know you only care about the opinions of survivors. That’s why I’m only playing as a survivor for now. The color palette in this event is absolutely terrible—it’s not just an eyesore; it’s genuinely painful to look at. This event is the only piece of gameplay you’ve actually done well. But it’s been ruined by this awful…

I'm going to skip the whole, map tokens that suck up our bloodpoints that we can't do anything about. However spending 1.9 million bloodpoints and barely getting any items out of it still makes zero sense to me. When is BHVR going to stop being stingy about our BP, items, and also address the map fragments that are useless?

Okay, so maybe a hot take, maybe just an opinion.. i think killers who hold the game hostage by downing the next to last survivor and slugging them should be banned from matchmaking the same as a survivor who quits a match.

Please add a surrender option for the last 2 survivors when the killer slugs to allow both survivors to surrender, and add a surrender option for Killers in end game, if this is an issue just make it work when the exit gate opens.

Hello. I’m disappointed we didn’t get Tricks & Treats Killer Weapons for The Houndmaster and The Judgment for this year’s Haunted By Daylight. They are the last two Original chapter killers who don’t have a weapon when Dead By Daylight has now transitioned to giving killers Tricks & Treats Masks instead. I do hope BHVR can…

I am posting this game b/c this honestly pissed me off. So I start off- in about 10 secs ish I am immediately in chase, during this chase a solid 1 minute passes (poor chase I am aware) before the survivor goes down. As I move to carry them to a scourge hook- 3 separate generators pop. Im like :ok, guess imma just camp…

i got a few things for you guys. whats your fav memory on the forums? take a minute, sit back and think about a tim when you really enjoyed your discussions on here and think to one that sticks with you. ive only been here for a bit so dont have one yet. except for meting tthis clown main who was allbout the love of…